Anchor Weekly News – Week 16 of 2025.

Stay up to date with the latest maritime shipping news introducing weekly ship movements/maritime projects. Monday 14th April. (D) 0356 hrs – the ropax EUROCARGO RAVENNA left Valletta from Laboratory Wharf. Grimaldi Group, are handled in Malta by Sullivan Maritime Ltd – www.sullivanmaritime.com From 0507 to 1747 hrs the ro/ro ship ELISABETH RUSS was at Valletta berthed at […]
Anchor Weekly News – Week 14 of 2025.

Stay up to date with the latest maritime shipping news introducing weekly ship movements/maritime projects. Monday 31st March. (D) 0358 hrs the ropax EUROCARGO RAVENNA was at Valletta berthed at Laboratory Wharf coming and going to Catania, Sicily. Grimaldi Group, are handled in Malta by Sullivan Maritime Ltd – www.sullivanmaritime.com From 0441 to 1937 hrs the ro/ro […]
Ship Repair – Superyacht YALLA drydocked at Melita Shipyard Ltd – January to April 2025

Increasing its capacity every year following numerous accomplishments, the Italian built Superyacht YALLA called for the first time at Malta and at Melita Shipyard. Built by CRN Yacht with yard number 70 she was delivered during 2014 for the Egyptian Billionaire Naquib Sawiris, born in 1954. Until 2011 he was Chairman at Wind Telecom, then known […]
Anchor Weekly News – Week 12 of 2025.

Stay up to date with the latest maritime shipping news introducing weekly ship movements/maritime projects. Monday 17th March. (D) – 0053 hrs the 1988 built BLZ flag general cargo ship NS PRIDE entered Valletta for Magazine Wharf. More images can be found here – https://maltashipphotos.com/photo/ns-pride-13-07-2021/ (D) – 0252 hrs the ropax EUROCARGO RAVENNA passed breakwaters outbound […]
Anchor Weekly News – 1st to 9th March 2025.

Stay up to date with the latest maritime shipping news introducing weekly ship movements/maritime projects. Saturday 1st March. First shipping movement at Valletta was the arrival of the 2017 built tug ST ANGELO that passed breakwaters at 0559 hrs wearing fresh MedTug livery from Augusta, Sicily after she was drydocked. More images here – St. […]
Renaming – EUROCARGO ISTANBUL to MERNA 2 – February, 2025

One of the Italian built ro/ro ships trading around – EUROCARGO ISTANBUL was sold during February 2025 and renamed as MERNA 2. She entered Grand Harbour on Thursday 13th February at 1516 hrs. She was built at Cantieri Navali Visentini, Italy as FRANZ in 1998 with yard number 184 for Levantina Trasporti Srl with sister […]
Delivery – Landing Craft Ferry IB ATLANTIC III at Malta – February 2025

Last Friday 14th February, the 2018 built 36.13m landing craft type ferry IB ATLANTIC III arrived at Malta, passing breakwaters at 1931 hrs coming from Piraeus, Greece. She was due to berth at Laboratory Wharf South 1 but berthed at Pinto 3 wharf , Valletta Cruise Port. On Saturday 15th February, uplifting bunkers was done […]
Casualty – Disabled Bitumen Tanker ASPHALT TERANGA towed for safety at Malta – 08.02.2025

On Friday 7th February, 2025 the Croatian built (2005) 108.5 m long Asphalt/Bitumen Tanker ASPHALT TERANGA called for uplifting bunkers and anchored at Bunkering Area 3 East. Early afternoon she was ready and few hours later she reported an engine failure. Immediately both Valletta VTS and Authorities were alerted and few hours later she was […]
Cruise Liner News – 4 New Cruise Liners to be built for NCL from Fincantieri – February 2025

During Week 6 of February, 2025 Fincantieri announced that the letter of intent that it signed with Norwegian Cruise Lines Holdings (NCLH) on 8th April, 2024 has been transformed into a firm order for the construction of four new cruise ships, destined for the Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) brand. The value of this agreement, subject […]
Offshore – Utility Vessel ZWERVER III at Malta – January 2025

Nearly after 7 years that ZWERVER II was seen in Malta for the Dutch Operator HvS Dredging Support BV, owned by Hans van Stee and Arjan van Stee, that has served over 30 years many offshore and dredging contractors on their projects worldwide it was time to see ZWERVER III. More photos can be found […]